Comments on: Melting glacier could raise sea level 11feet globally https://citifmonline.com/2015/03/melting-glacier-could-raise-sea-level-11feet-globally/ Ghana News | Ghana Politics | Ghana Soccer | Ghana Showbiz Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.8 By: Steve Case https://citifmonline.com/2015/03/melting-glacier-could-raise-sea-level-11feet-globally/#comment-2145 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:50:00 +0000 http://4cd.e16.myftpupload.com/?p=100741#comment-2145 The United Nations’ report on climate change last year estimated sea levels could rise between 1 foot and 3 feet by 2100.

Three feet by 2100 would require an average sea level rise of almost 11 mm/yr, or require a steady acceleration of nearly 0.2 mm/yr² over the 85 years arriving at a rate of 18 mm/yr by 2100.

Colorado University’s Sea Level Research Group
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/
keeps the satellite records for sea level as determined from satellites and they publish data
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/files/2015_rel1/sl_ns_global.txt
which tells us:In the 11 years from 1992.9595 to 2003.9544 the rate of sea level rise was 3.5 mm/yr.and In the 11 years from 2003.9544 to 2014.9494 the rate of sea level rise was only 2.9 mm/yr.

That works out to a negative acceleration of minus -0.05 mm/yr².

Steve Case – Milwaukee, WI

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